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Pope Francis opens the morning session of a two-week synod on family issues held in October 2014 at the Vatican. A conference in 2015 will build on the discussions from the synod. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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Pope Francis attends a morning session of a two-week synod on family issues at the Vatican, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Pope Francis attends a morning session of a two-week synod on family issues at the Vatican, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Pope Francis kisses a child as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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Pope Francis attends a Vespers prayer in the Church of Jesus, in Rome, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Pope Francis holds his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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Pope Francis waves to the crowd from his popemobile as he arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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Slavery is one of the themes Pope Francis will discuss in his 2015 World Day of Peace message. Here, he looks at two children as they free doves during his Angelus prayer. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Pope Francis called to console the Foley family after their photojournalist son was killed by the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Pope Francis meets with bishops during his visit to the Shrine of Haemi in South Korea. The pontiff earlier beatified 124 Korean martyrs who died in the 18th and 19th centuries. (associated press)
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South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Pope Francis walk together before a welcoming ceremony at the presidential Blue House in Seoul. Pope Francis became the first pontiff in 25 years to visit South Korea. (Associated Press)
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South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, leads Pope Francis after a welcome ceremony at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. Pope Francis became the first pontiff in 25 years to visit South Korea on Thursday, bringing a message of peace and reconciliation to the war-divided peninsula. (AP Photo/Kim Hong-ji, Pool)
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POPULAR: Visitors take souvenir photos by pictures of Pope Francis at a bookstore in Seoul. During a five-day trip to South Korea, the pope will preside over a beatification ceremony for 124 Korean martyrs. (Associated Press)
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In this Thursday, July 24, 2014 photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis meets Meriam Ibrahim, from Sudan, with her daughter Maya in her arms, in his Santa Marta residence, at the Vatican. Ibrahim, a Sudanese woman who refused to recant her Christian faith in the face of a death sentence, which was later overturned, left Europe on Thursday, July 31, 2014, for the United States, where she will make her new home. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, File)
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Pope Francis met with Meriam Ibrahim, from Sudan, Thursday after her surprise release from her home country and a flight to Rome with her husband and two children. Ms. Ibrahim, whose estranged father was Muslim but whose mother was an Orthodox Christian from Ethiopia, was sentenced to death over charges of apostasy and was being held in U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, until she was unexpectedly allowed to leave the country by Sudanese officials.
